Deuteronomy 33:28

33:28 Israel lives in safety,

the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, ¹ 

in a land of grain and new wine;

indeed, its heavens ²  rain down dew. ³ 

Proverbs 5:16

5:16 Should your springs be dispersed ⁴  outside,

your streams of water in the wide plazas?

Isaiah 48:1

The Lord Appeals to the Exiles

48:1 Listen to this, O family of Jacob, ⁵ 

you who are called by the name ‘Israel,’

and are descended from Judah, ⁶ 

who take oaths in the name of the Lord,

and invoke ⁷  the God of Israel –

but not in an honest and just manner. ⁸ 

[33:28]  ¹ tn Heb “all alone.” The idea is that such vital resources as water will some day no longer need protection because God will provide security.

[33:28]  ² tn Or “skies.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[33:28]  ³ tn Or perhaps “drizzle, showers.” See note at Deut 32:2.

[5:16]  ⁴ tn The verb means “to be scattered; to be dispersed”; here the imperfect takes a deliberative nuance in a rhetorical question.

[48:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV, CEV “people of Israel.”

[48:1]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads literally “and from the waters of Judah came out.” מִמֵּי (mimme) could be a corruption of מִמְּעֵי (mimmÿ’e, “from the inner parts of”; cf. NASB, NIV, NLT, NRSV) as suggested in the above translation. Some translations (ESV, NKJV) retain the MT reading because the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a, which corrects a similar form to “from inner parts of” in 39:7, does not do it here.

[48:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “cause to remember”; KJV, ASV “make mention of.”

[48:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “not in truth and not in righteousness.”